Articles about Start-Ups

The Australian e-commerce player has promoted former Googler Tim Schulz to the role of chief product officer, where he will helm Bigcommerce's SaaS platform as it scales to serve enterprise-level businesses.

A new technology startup accelerator program launched in Perth by Australian telecommunications company Amcom is offering up to eight startups AU$40,000 in seed capital, along with three months of professional mentoring.

Australian e-commerce tech startup Bigcommerce has bolstered its advisory board with the addition of Nasuni COO and CFO Scott Dussault, who helped lead cloud commerce provider Demandware to a successful IPO in 2012.

Australian online education startup OpenLearning has secured AU$1.7 million in funding, with the company set to leverage the cash injection to ramp up its engineering team and back its expansion into the Asian market.

Alibaba Group is hoping to strengthen economic ties between Hong Kong and mainland China, with a plan to inject HK$1 billion into a not-for-profit foundation aimed at supporting the city-state's young entrepreneurs.

Stanford student Megan Zoback, a one-time intern for Jaxtr, is spreading the word about the company's effort to bring online calling into the MySpace.com era--with no need to download software. CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari listens in on Zoback's primer. (Note: Zoback currently has no formal relation with the VoIP company and has not been compensated for her use of the free service.)

Stanford University's annual Cool Products Expo shows off the best rising products around. CNET News.com's Zamir Haider was on hand at this year's event on April 11 to see what the future has in store.

Mashery is a new startup committed to making it easier to build, deploy and use mashups. Over the next several months, we'll be launching a number of services for mashup developers and API providers. Come join us in our Mashup University session to get an early look at what we're working on, and to talk to us about what you'd like to see Mashery incorporate in its future releases.

Every NBA basketball game is being logged by Synergy Sports Technology and the video of every play tagged and correlated with stats. Synergy hopes to sell its analytical tools to every NBA team. CNET News.com's Harry Fuller looks over the shoulder of Synergy's Andy Graham to see what the pros can see.

In this Face to Face interview, venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple Computer evangelist, joins ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber to talk about his latest book. In "The Art of the Start," the best-selling author gives entrepreneurial advice, from creating bold positioning statements to avoiding "hallucinatory forecasts," on the road to business success.

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry makes a campaign stop in Silicon Valley to outline his proposed technology policy, which calls for tax cuts on long-term investments in start-ups and more support for broadband technology.